Ken Piety

Ken Piety is the Innovation Director at RDI and is responsible for finding and evaluating new market opportunities to fuel growth at RDI. RDI’s ability to detect and measure motion and specific frequencies in areas of interest using cameras has a very broad spectrum for application.

Ken recognized the value proposition that RDI was bringing to the market and elected to become one of the first investors in the company.

He was formerly the Vice President of Technology at Azima DLI and was responsible for the development of a new paradigm in vibration analysis tools and a second generation cloud-based vibration diagnostic center. He has been a pioneer in making vibration analysis and other condition assessment technologies useful on the factory floor for almost 40 years. He is the holder of more than 30 patents and numerous publications related to reliability-based maintenance technologies. Dr. Piety was a cofounder of CSI and was employed there for 18 years. Prior to CSI, Dr. Piety worked as a development engineer at General Electric, Technology for Energy Corporation, and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He holds a B.S. (1970) and Ph.D. (1976) in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.